Mood amongst Manchester United players as low as in final days of Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | OneFootball

The mood in Manchester United’s dressing room has sunk as low as the last days of the Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer regimes.

The Red Devils are on course for their worst ever Premier League campaign as they have fallen three points behind Newcastle United and Chelsea in the race for European spots.

This leaves United floundering in eighth with a fixture against the league leaders Arsenal at Old Trafford later today.

The season has been peppered with crazy defeats and shambolic performances but the 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Crystal Palace really took the biscuit.

There have been rumours that players have already “given up” on the season and they already see Erik ten Hag as a dead man walking.

Some members of the playing staff even reportedly fear that the team won’t win any of its three remaining league fixtures, where a place in next season’s Europa League is very much still on the table and an FA Cup final in a fortnight against Manchester City.

There have already been signals of discontent, which really seemed to raise its ugly head after Alejandro Garnacho’s half-time withdrawal against Bournemouth last month.

The Argentine liked two controversial social media comments suggesting Ten Hag was showing preference to other players, that he later apologised for.

In addition, under-used fan favourite, Amad Diallo, also posted a cryptic message that seemed to suggest the players were far from happy with the manager.

The Daily Mail have taken this even further and claimed there have always been doubts about the former Ajax manager’s ability to connect with the players.

“Perhaps it’s because Erik is Dutch, but there isn’t much empathy,” says one insider. “He can be his own worst enemy.”

“In the Netherlands, they wondered how his approach to man-management would go down at United when it came to handling star players. There have been high-profile fall-outs with Ronaldo and Jadon Sancho, as well as spats with Anthony Martial and Raphael Varane.”

Most interestingly of all however is the massive claim that, “at United there has been a feeling for some time that Ten Hag is on borrowed time, which in itself is undermining his authority. The mood at Carrington is said to have sunk as low as at any time in the final days under Mourinho and Solskjaer. That’s hardly surprising given the problems that have beset United and Ten Hag this season.”

With the Champions League officially out of reach and an uphill task to defeat Manchester City in the cup final, the end seems nigh for Ten Hag.

When reports of this nature start to emerge, it is very rare that a manager comes back from the edge of the cliff. Were United to respond and win all four of their remaining games, securing Europa League football, winning the cup and restoring some pride, it is still unlikely it would be enough to save the Dutchman’s job.

In addition, the players have shown nothing all season to suggest they can put together the required performances to get such positive results in such challenging circumstances.

Once more it feels the winds of change will sweep through Carrington in the very near future.

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